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UK Avant-garde Black Metal. This is very well put together & the production helps bring all the various elements out very well. The vocals range over a very wide span & are accompanied by some fantastic melodies. Some tracks are totally nuts & hard (for me) to keep up with - Swamp dog?... :) Thanks for your sale Brucia! Recommended!
Favorite track: Swamp Dog.
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"A fast-spinning sonic kaleidoscope" - No Clean Singing
"Incredible, full of psychedelia, very attractive and progressive" - Retumba
"An intense experience, full of messages, visions, details, frenetic but well harmonized" - Metalitalia
"Weird, strange, bizarre, a puzzle put together in an alternate fashion to reveal a new picture" - Invisible Oranges
"Avant-post-black metal madness" - Decibel Magazine
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"Jadjow" is the fourth Full Length album by Avant-Garde Metal pioneers VOID
“Jadjow” was born out of the DHG Void Dancers tour in 2019, when VOID founding member and guitarist Matt Jarman and Camille Giraudeau (Dreams of the Drowned, Doedsmaghird) both played live guitar for Dødheimsgard.
Also present were DHG's bass player Lars Emil Måløy (If Nothing Is) and their live sound engineer George Geegor Anagnostopoulos. These four musicians decided to collaborate on a project, co-writing what became the fourth Void album.
The drums on the album were eventually performed by Tariq Zulficar (Atramentum), a long time collaborator of Camille's, based on Geegor's original arrangements.
In typical Void fashion, the music on “Jadjow” demonstrates a distinct departure from the previous releases, whilst paradoxically remaining quintessentially Void.
Skillfully mixing the aggressiveness of Black Metal with progressive music, a Post-Metal sensibility, Noise-like leads and syncopated, hyper-technical drumming, VOID managed to create something entirely unique and atypical, showcasing a voracious appetite for creating rich and complex soundscapes with incredible sense of purpose and direction.
The vocals here are also extremely varied, melodic, at times choir-like, and play a massive role in redefining VOID's eccentricity, creating a multi-layered masterpiece of experimental music that manages to push the boundaries of both aggression and sophistication at the same time.
The dream-like artwork was exclusively created by previous Void vocalist Laura Katrin Weston.
FFO:, Dødheimsgard, Enslaved, Ved Buens Ende.
credits
released December 7, 2023
LINE UP
Matt Jarman - Guitar (left) and Vocals
Lars Emil Måløy - Bass
Camille Giraudeau - Guitar (Right)
Tariq Zulficar - Drums
CREDITS
All music on "Jadjow" was written and arranged by Void with George Anagnostopoulos.
The lyrics were written by Void with contributions from Gerardo Serra and Joe Norman and arranged by Matt Jarman.
Recorded by Void at Bad Princess Productions, HVN, Guest Room and Perishing Plastic Studios, 2020-2023.
Mixed by Raph Henry at Heldscalla
Mastered by Benoit Roux at Drudenhaus
Cover art "Wandus: I think therefore I am" and all inlay art by Laura Weston
Layout and artistic supervision by Evokaos (Brucia Records)
There's something charming about bands that don't give a shit what you like and just do their own thing. Is it death metal? Grind? Tech hardcore? Who the fuck knows? It's fun though. Ghuughra
Heaviest thing I’ve heard all year along with Altarage. Okay I’ve been listening to this record for the past two weeks and it just gets better and better. Dissonant grooves galore Jacob Ballance
PSA: if there was an album you heard a couple years ago and thought it was ok, listen to it again and you might love it.
That's what happened to me with this album. I cannot fathom why it didn't stick with me back then. Same thing happened with Decoherence's Unitarity for that matter. Matten